Born of the age we live in
John Lanchester, 6 December 1990
Stick it up your punter! The Rise and Fall of the ‘Sun’
by Peter Chippindale and Chris Horrie.
Heinemann, 372 pp., £14.99, November 1990,0 434 12624 1 Show More
by Peter Chippindale and Chris Horrie.
Heinemann, 372 pp., £14.99, November 1990,
All played out: The True Story of Italia ’90
by Pete Davies.
Heinemann, 471 pp., £14.99, October 1990,0 434 17908 6 Show More
by Pete Davies.
Heinemann, 471 pp., £14.99, October 1990,
“... man who is also somehow strangely armoured by his vulnerability – is substantially confirmed by Robin McGibbon’s biography of the footballer. (It was this book which gave a judge the opportunity to ask whether Gascoigne played ‘rugby or association football’; His Honour also seemed to think that the English version of La Gazza Ladra is The ... ”